Clinical Education

Four Year Clinical Educational Curriculum

PGY1

Internal Medicine Neurology Emergency/Crisis Psychiatry Night Float Inpatient Adult Psychiatry
16 weeks 8 weeks 4 weeks 4 weeks 4 weeks

*A combination of activities designed to lay the foundation for residency, includes observed neuropsychological testing, training in the use of rating scales and structured interviews, strategic interviewing, partial hospital group therapy.

PGY2

Inpatient Adult Psychiatry Inpatient Geriatric and Medical Psychiatry Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Emergency/Crisis Psychiatry Night Float UConn John Dempsey Hospital Research Inpatient Addictions
8 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks 4 weeks 8 weeks 4 weeks 4 weeks
Outpatient Therapy Cases Assigned

PGY3                                               OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRY

Continuity Care Clinic-Assessment/Pharmacotherapy/Combined Psychotherapy (50%)
Public Psychiatry-Forensics/Community (20%)
Psychotherapies-CBT/Brief/Psychodynamic/Group (30%)

PGY4

Supervision and Teaching

Junior Residents, and Administrative Psychiatry

(0.6 FTE time)

Addiction Psychiatry

Veterans Administration Hospital

(0.8 FTE)

Electives

(0.1 FTE)

9 months 3 months 9 months
At least one day per week of general outpatient Psychiatry (long term continuity cases, individual, couples, and family therapy)